The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-14

led In literally. and as she put her stew
on before breakfast and let it simmer
all the morning adding the sliced po-
tato at IL o'clock, it was well doneby
noon.
"Georgel how good the dinner
smelsR calculated Tom.
"Got roast turkey, Lou?" inquired
Potter, smiling and smelling.
Even listless Lou wanted some dinner
that day; the rest recovered their APP
petites-without any more lager
81 wish to the land you'd learn
cookin' OF Aunt Prattl" said Potter.
al wonder IL I've sewed up that
hole2" thought Aunt Pratt.
But she had not. Louisa was too
old to learn new tricks, as we say
about dogs; she continued to buy the
best meat and cook it in the worst
way, and still the money leaked from
that hole in the bag.
"Hullo, Toni" said Potter one Sun
day morning, as Tom sauntered into
the room with half smoked cigar In
his mouth. "Ain't you tony? Why,
that cigar smells like a rose"
Aunt Pratt wondered what sort oil
q rose had an oder like tobacco.
at had ought TO-" sententiously re-
marked Tom. "Them fellers cost me
five cents apiece by the hundred"
"Well, kin put up with my pipe so
fur; but you young fellers have got to
have your fling. | reckon. By'm-by
you'll fall back one brier wood an mig
ger head"
"Another hole in the bag" murmur-
ed Aunt Pratt, who had patiently
darned Toms threadbare socks and
patched his worn shirts for him every
week for months.
"Well, here be-" shouted Potter
as he came in on Monday about ten
O'Clock.
"Why, what has fetched you home"
inquired his wife.
"Oh, our fellers have struck; we're
goin' to have less work and morepay;
them darned capitalists mas over-rode
us long enough; we're bound to have
our share OF the dollars we make, now
l tell you'll" =,
"For the mercy's sakes!" calculated
Louisa.
Where are you going to work
now" dryly asked Aunt Pratt.
"Why, back again, as soon as the
bosses come to TERMS"
"But supposin they shouldn't
"Oh, they've got to, can't lose their
contracts, no way; we've got 'em
where the hairs short"
"But supposin' they hold out for a
months time or six weeks?"
."Oh, we get 'lowance out ofthe as
sessments we amt goin' to starve."
"Whos paying them assessments"
1.-THE felers that have got m oney
enough laid away; they're taxed for
the general good; so much q week till
the STRIFE s. over"
BE you assured?"
Lord do we think I've got cent
in the bank2 Four children and starv-
in wages. What's three dollars O
day withfourin the family, an clothes,
an rent, an vittles, an light, an fuel,
an doctors, an Lord knows what
all?"
"a bag with holesl" ran through
Aunt Pratt's mind as she looked back
on the past six months.
Weeks passed on; the bosses. were
not only firm but hired other men ia
the strikers places, and went on with
the contracts. Potter sulked. and
lounged and swore, and made his pipe
and himself daily nuisance in the
house. Before long Aunt Pratt dis
covered that the assessments were de-
creasing, and alarmed lest Potter
should insist on sharing her small
property among his brood, on COM
munistic principles, she quietly with
drew herself one day to an old ladies'
home, where the payment OF small
sum insured her a peaceful and pleas
ant home for life; and from her re-
treat she gave much aid and comfort
| to the women ofthe Potter family, but
refused any to the two men.
81 can't waste my pittance on beer
and tobacco" she said sharply; and
she meant what she said. When she
died, her money was all lett TO the
Home where she lived, to endow two
free admissions, the three women Of
the Potters to have the preference.
IL have lived" said that document
after the term OF the Request, ito SET
what the Bible meant when it says IL
| Hagrai /: 9, 'Ye eat, but we have not
enough; We drink, but We are not filled
with drink; ye clothe you, but Their,
is none warm; and he that earnetl
wages, earneth wages to put into q
bag with holes;' and | will not leav,
behind me any dollars to go into thai
bag"
"Old crank" said the disappointed
Potter, when the lawyer finished
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